Illegal adoption: 6 including doc couple held

Virudhunagar: Police arrested six people including a doctor couple here on Monday evening in connection with the illegal adoption of a baby by a couple three years ago apparently without the knowledge of its biological mother. The matter came out in the open after the woman’s mother who was also part of the crime spilled the beans to her recently.

According to sources, 20-year-old Selvi (name changed) is a resident of a village near Aruppukottai in the district. Selvi fell in love with a person called Narayanan (name changed) when she was a minor girl and became pregnant. When Selvi’s mother Muthulakshmi came to know about it, she admitted her to a private hospital at Kallorani.

Even though Selvi gave birth to a baby boy, the doctor, Vino Dhamayandhi (49), and her husband Vadivelmurugan (51), who is also a doctor, convinced Muthulakshmi to give away the baby in adoption to a couple, Jeyaraj (39) and Shanmugapriya (31), residents of Aruppukottai. A hospital staffer, Kulandhai, was also involved in the incident. When Selvi asked about her baby, Muthulakshmi said it had died. Later, Selvi got married to Narayanan and she gave birth to a girl child in 2017. Recently, when Selvi was feeling depressed and crying over not having a male heir, Muthulakshmi revealed that she had given birth to a male baby in 2016 and that the doctors had given it away in adoption. Angered over this, Selvi and Narayanan went to the hospital and picked up a quarrel with the doctor couple who in turn asked them to inquire with her mother Muthulakshmi.